News in Glastonbury

Staff at St Dunstan's in Glastonbury have been carrying out in-school Covid testing since January for teachers and since March 8 for students.

In-school testing has come to an end and the testing centre will return to being the drama studio next week.

An event in Glastonbury is offering help to young entrepreneurs to kick-start and develop their businesses.

If you are aged 16 to 25, based in Mendip, with a brilliant new business idea, and want support to launch a new local business or grow your existing start-up, you can pitch your idea at the Dragons' Den event for the chance to win cash and one-to-one business support.

Electric charging points are set to be installed in a Mendip District Council-owned car park in Glastonbury for the first time – encouraging drivers to switch from fossil-fuelled vehicles, to cleaner electric ones.

Some 24 charging points will be placed across seven council car parks in the district, providing 56 bays for electric vehicle charging.

Plans have been submitted to Mendip District Council for two industrial units to be built in Glastonbury.

A planning application for the building of two adjoining general industrial units on land at Dyehouse Lane, Glastonbury, has been submitted by Glastonbury and Street county councillor Terry Napper.

Trudi Grant, director of public health at Somerset County Council, is urging all Glastonbury families and households with children to start to take a free Covid test twice every week.

Each person in a Somerset household with primary, secondary and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles, are encouraged to test themselves at home twice every week to help find more Covid-19 cases and break chains of transmission.

Firefighters tackled a chimney fire at a property in Meare last night (March 17).

Just before 8.30pm, one fire engine from Street was mobilised to reports of a fire within a chimney at a property in Stileway, Meare.

It's now been five days since I willingly queued up to get my first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

Since that time there have been various stories circulating about the side effects of the Oxford AstraZeneca jab, including its rumoured links to blood clotting (unproven) and the decision of several EU countries to suspend using this particular vaccine (which seems foolhardy).

A Somerset council is to pay a private contractor up to £450,000 to build a new Costa Coffee outlet in Glastonbury as part of its commercial investment programme.

South Somerset District Council allocated up to £700,000 of taxpayers' money in its annual budget towards an investment in a branch of Costa Coffee, with the income being used to fund front-line services.

Census letters, with unique access codes, are starting to arrive on Street residents' doorsteps for them to complete the online questionnaire.

It takes just 10 minutes and if you can't get online, there are paper forms available.

The Tesco supermarket in Glastonbury is one of those earmarked for a new trial, recycling so-called "soft plastics".

The supermarket in Wirral Park Road has a deposit site in the store and is one of 171 large Tesco stores across Wales and the South West taking part in the pilot.